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Hello. I sure that al of you web enthusiast out there who have a pretty good grip on web design knows what is CSS, SSI, Perl, XML, DHTML, PHP , CGI, C++ .....

The problem with me here is CSS. Since i've been using wysiwyg editors like Dreamweaver and Frontpage, i have almost stopped relying on the good'ol notepad. Yes, i do do some coding myself which can't be achieve throught a wysiwyg editor. I've always had problems with CSS. I only gotten a grip of some basic stuff like a:hover. It would be great if there was a tool for me to use to make generate CSS styles. Basically, what i am looking for is a application for generating CSS scripts. I personally use Dreamweaver. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Well, I would agree that CSS is easy enough to learn to do manually, but if you work in a production environment you'll want to produce it as quickly as possible, and I find TopStyle to be an excellent software.

There is a free program for creating style sheets http://www.westciv.com/style_master/index.html. The beauty of the program is that next to each property is an explanation of the attribute and a warning for browser compatibility issues including Netscape 6.

No offense to anyone else who has already posted, but CSS can get quite detailed. As CSS2 becomes fully realized, Web designers will have hundreds of choices in colors, fonts, backgrounds, layers, margins, borders, columns, positioning, pseudo class elements, and many, many more.

Eventually, the plan is to have XML documents with multiple style sheets for Web browsers, TVs, cell phones, and other non-pc devices. Depending on what your using to view a given Web site, the correct style sheet will need to associated with it. For instance, the visibility element for graphics may have a hidden property for when viewed on non-pc devices.

Jim Tools may also help you with CSS and more. There are many different types of webmaster online generators including one for Generating Cascading Style Sheets(CSS) that you can find under HTML Tools: http://www.jimtools.com/html.html...

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